Allbrooke, B M M, Asquith, L, Cerri, A, Chavez Barajas, C A, De Santo, A, Salvatore, F, Santoyo Castillo, I, Suruliz, K, Sutton, M R, Vivarelli, I and The ATLAS Collaboration, (2014) Measurement of flow harmonics with multi-particle cumulants in Pb+Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 74 (11). a3157. ISSN 1434-6044

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Abstract

ATLAS measurements of the azimuthal anisotropy in lead–lead collisions at √sNN=2.76 TeV are shown using a dataset of approximately 7μb −1 collected at the LHC in 2010. The measurements are performed for charged particles with transverse momenta 0.5<pT<20 GeV and in the pseudorapidity range |η|<2.5. The anisotropy is characterized by the Fourier coefficients, vn, of the charged-particle azimuthal angle distribution for n=2–4. The Fourier coefficients are evaluated using multi-particle cumulants calculated with the generating function method. Results on the transverse momentum, pseudorapidity and centrality dependence of the vn coefficients are presented. The elliptic flow, v2, is obtained from the two-, four-, six- and eight-particle cumulants while higher-order coefficients, v3 and v4, are determined with two- and four-particle cumulants. Flow harmonics vn measured with four-particle cumulants are significantly reduced compared to the measurement involving two-particle cumulants. A comparison to vn measurements obtained using different analysis methods and previously reported by the LHC experiments is also shown. Results of measurements of flow fluctuations evaluated with multi-particle cumulants are shown as a function of transverse momentum and the collision centrality. Models of the initial spatial geometry and its fluctuations fail to describe the flow fluctuations measurements.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Research Centres and Groups:	Experimental Particle Physics Research Group
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Depositing User:	Billy Wichaidit
Date Deposited:	03 May 2017 15:22
Last Modified:	03 May 2017 15:42
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/67648

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